tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post3727117279699005667..comments2024-02-16T06:29:33.587-08:00Comments on Welcome to " The Math UnderGround " -- Seattle & Washington State: Court Update on my Complaint against OSPI and SBEdan dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536720661510933983noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post-14368901980705115952008-08-01T14:58:00.000-07:002008-08-01T14:58:00.000-07:00Revised 9-12 standards approved by SBE. Hold on to...Revised 9-12 standards approved by SBE. Hold on to your calculators!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post-70107777991774913912008-07-28T13:49:00.000-07:002008-07-28T13:49:00.000-07:00Edmonds has a parent blog and they adopted McDouga...Edmonds has a parent blog and they adopted McDougall Littell officially 6/5/2008.<BR/><BR/>http://parents4math.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>The weak link is middle school (naturally) - they stayed with CMP2<BR/><BR/>Edmonds was an important district for reform advocates because of its vicinity to Everett. The Director at CEL was the former sup of Edmonds (Panasonic Exec.) - so you have links to Dana, Boeing, OSPI, and Achieve.<BR/><BR/>The District presently has an experienced sup, who is more moderate and traditional. I think recently they hired a new curriculum director. I'd like to know how this impacted their 'new' alternative program.<BR/><BR/><BR/>The only thing I would comment on is this issue of balance. Because certainly everyone involved in this debate believes in balanced curriculum. This is a non-issue, but it makes WTM and everybody else who disagrees with the reform curriculum appear as though they aren't balanced. <BR/><BR/>Or a term I've heard used more and more - 'disciplined math skills' as what? undisciplined?<BR/><BR/>The idea being that kids can't learn math without discipline which is ludicrous, because it presumes children who are undisciplined have no math skills? So then we should use reform math so they will learn discipline? <BR/><BR/>Very questionable arguments and simply doesn't fly in the face of experience. Students have to be engaged and motivated before you can create an environment where discipline can be enforced and effective, otherwise it appears arbitrary and unfair.<BR/><BR/>Its important to establish what was occurring around the state at the time MAP was torpedoed. I think its fair to say that the public is in a bit of an uproar over OSPI and their groupies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post-21556356959489070542008-07-27T13:24:00.000-07:002008-07-27T13:24:00.000-07:00Thanks,T^2Thanks,<BR/><BR/>T^2Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com